Diaper, catamenial bandage, and the like



April 15 1924.

R. J. wooDY` DIAPER, CATAMEIAL BANDAGE, AND THE LIVKE Filed May 17',

nomicall vterial necessarily resulting when the article g '1,490,3@3 r wie REGINA J. wooDY, orcHEsTNUT HILL, MASSACHUSETTS. alarm., GATAMENIAL BANDAG'E, am) m Lmn.

application area my 17, 192s. serial No. 639,534.

y s PATE To all lwhom -z't may concern:

Be it known that I, REGINA J. WooDY, a citizen of the 'United States, and a resident of Chestnut Hill, in thecounty of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented la new and useful Improvement in Diapers, Catamenial Bandages, and the like, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to diapers, catamenia-l bandages and the like and is an improvement on the article described yin my `Patent N o. 1,451,643 dated April 10, 1923.

rlhe object of my invention is. to provide an article of the general type described in said patent which may be made more ecoby cutting and folding a fabricv sheet wit out any waste of material, and also rovide a'method of making such article. ith the foregoing objects in view, my invention consists of a method of making a diaper, catamenial bandage and the like by the positions of the various parts making up slittin a sheet of fabric to which may be the article shown in Figure 5; quilte a layer of absorbent fibrous material Fi re 7 is a transverse sectiontaken on at the four corners thereof, said slits prefthe line 7-7 of Figure 5. v erably not being along the diagonals of the In the particular drawings selected for sheet, so as to form two trapezoidal flaps, more fully disclosing my invention 10 repfolding said aps over on the sheet along the resents a sheet of fabric of any suitable charshort bases thereof, so that the long bases of acter such for instance as cheese cloth, which the flaps come together and lie substantially as shown may be oblong in shape and to in thek lon itudinal axis of the sheet, and which may be quilted fibrous or other abthen stitching said flaps to the sheet. My sorbent material as indicated at.11. The invention in its simplest form comprises also fabric sheet is .slitted an article which referably is ma e by said slits 12, in the case of an oblong sheet prefmethod and whic consists of a fabric sheet erably not being coincident with the diaghaving a central longitudinal reinforcement v`onals of thesheet, andthe lines 13 joining consisting o'f two trapezoidal flaps, each inthe inner ends of each pair of slits prefertegral w1th the fabric and each reversely ably are midway between the longitudinal folded over the same on its short base, whereaxis of the sheet andl one of the longer sides by the long bases thereof lie substantiall lin thereof. The two trapezoidalaps 14, l5 the lon itudinal axis'of the sheet. The aps formed lby the long sides of the sheet, the prefera ly are stitchedl to: the fabric sheet slits and the lines l3.are folded over on the alon their long bases and diagonal sides and sheet in opposite directions along the short suita le fastenlng devices such as strings are -bases 13 thereof so that the long bases-of attached to the corners of the article. The each flap will come together and lie substansheetiis provided with two slots located, re-

tially in the longitudinal axis of the sheet spectively, near the diagonally opposite coras shown in Figure 2. The flaps preferably ners thereof, each slot preferably being inare stitched to the sheet along their long clined to the longitudinal axis of the sheet bases and their diagonal sides as indicated and arranged to receive the nearer corner of at 16, 17 respectively. The sheet is provided the sheet on the opposite side of the transwith two slots 18, 19 near the diagonally opverseaxis thereof, in the manner set forth posite corners thereof, each slot being inin my Letters Patent aforesaid.

An article'of this class formed as aforesaid may be manufactured very economically because as will be `obvious the waste of mais made in the manner set forth in my prior p atent is eliminated, thereby effecting a considerable saving in quantity production. f y lnventlon may best be described by reference to the drawings which accompany and form a part of this specification, in which- Figurevl is a plan View of a fabric sheet cut for making my improvement;

Flgure 2 is a plan view of the finished article made from thesheet Figure 3 is a plan view of a sheet suitably cut for making a modification ofthe article shown` in Figure 2;

Figure 4 is a plan view showing the second stage in the made from the sheet shown in Figure 3;

Figure 5 is a plan view ofthe finished article made from the sheet shown in Figure 3; F1gure 6'is a diagrammatic view showing and arranged to receive the nearer corner of the sheet on the op osite side of the transverse axis thereof, t at vis to say the corner 20 passes through the slot 18 and the corner manufacture of the article Shown in Figure 1;

at its corners, the said clined to the longitudinal axis of the sheet 21 passes through the slot 19 as more fully of the wearer by suitable fastening means herein shown as strings 22 attached to thev corners of the sheet.

In the modification shown in Figure 3, an oblong sheet of fabric 23 is slitted at its corners as shown at 12 12" in the manner above described in connection with'Figure 1, so as to form the trapezoidal flaps 37, 32, and four other slits are made in the sheet each starting from al point near or at the intersec'tion of the transverse axis 24 with the long sides of Ithe sheet, the said slits 25, 26 making the same angles respectively with the transverse axis 24 that the end slits 12 make with the short sides of the sheet.

The lines 27, 28 joining the inner ends of each pair of slits 12', 25, are midway between the transverse axis'of the upper half of the sheet and the short side 29 and transverse axis 24 thereof, respectively. In like manner the lines 30, 31 j'oining the inner endsof the other pair of slits are similarly arranged with respect to the lower half of the sheet. l

The trapezoidal flap 32 is folded over the lower half -33 of the sheetA 23 which will be ythe lowermost sheet of the finished article as indicated in Figure 6, and the ap 34 is then folded over the lower half 33 of said sheet, each said flap being folded along its short base 31, 30 so that their long bases will lie substantially in the longitudinal axis of saidlower sheet 33. The third flap 35Y is then superimposedl on the 'second flap 34 being folded thereover on its long base 24, and the upper half 36 of the sheet is then folded over the third flap along the short base 28 thereof, and finally the fourth fiap 37 is folded over the upper sheet 36 along its short base 27, so that the long bases of the iiaps v35 and -37 lie substantially in the longitudinal axis of the upper sheet and said fourth `fiap is superimposed upon the first flap 32. As indicated in Figure 4 the end flaps 32, 37 preferably are first folded over their respective sheets 33, 36 and may be secured thereto by stitching as ndicated,. and then the twohalves of the sheet are folded along thex` transverse axis 24 thereof, first folding the fiaps 34, 35

together along said axis 24 which `constitutes the long base of said fiaps. It will be understood of course that the stitchingof the flaps 32, 37 indicated in Figure 4 may be omitted. After-the sheet has been folded in 'the'manner above described and the article assumes the form shown in Figure 5, the latter may be stitched alon its outer edges as indicated at 38,-,there y fastening the two halves together and the slots 18, 19 are then made in two diagonally opposite corners, and the string fasteners Leeaeoa 22vsecured to each corner. It will be noted that the fiaps afford a central longitudinal reinforcement, and that by making such reinforcement according tcmy method of cutting and folding there is no waste of material.

- Having thus described an illustrative embodiment of my invention what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. An article of the class described com'- prising a fabric sheet, said sheet having two slots located, respectively, near the diagonally opposite corners thereof, each slot being inclined to the longitudinal axis of the sheet and arranged to receive the nearer corner of the sheet on the opposite side of the transverse axis thereof, and a central longitudinal reinforcement consisting of two substantially trapezoidal flaps, each integral with said fabric and each reversely folded over the same on its short base, so that the long bases thereof lie substantially in the longitudinal axis of said sheet.

2. An article of the class described comprising a fabric sheet, said sheet having two slots located, respectively, near the diagonally opposite corners thereof, each slot being lnc'lined to the longitudinal axis of the sheet and arranged to receive the nearer corner of the sheet on the opposite side of the transverse axis thereof,- and a central longitudinal reinforcement consistin of two substantially trapezoidal flaps, eac integral with said fabric and each reversely folded over the same on its short base, so that the long bases thereof lie substantially in the longitudinal 'axis of said sheet, the said flaps being stitched to the fabric sheet along their long bases and diagonal s1 es.

3. An article of the class described comprisin a fabric sheet, said sheet having two s ots located, respectively, near the diagonally opposite corners thereof, each slot being inclined to the longitudinal axis of the sheet and arranged to receive the nearer corner of the sheet on the opposite side ofthe transverse axis thereof, a centrallongitudinal reinforcement consisting of two substantially trapezoidal flaps, each integral with said fabric and each reversely folded over the same on its short base, so that the long bases thereof lie substantially in the lon itudinal axis of said sheet, the said flaps belng stitched to the fabric sheet alon their long" bases and diagonal sides, an fastening devices secured to` the corners of said sheet.

4. The method of making a diaper, catamenial banda e and the like'which consists in slitting a s eet at the four corners thereof to form two trapezoidal flaps, the long bases of which are the opposlte sides of said sheet, reversely folding said flaps over the sheet on the short bases thereof, wherel'oo by the long bases of said liaps lie substantially in the longitudinal axis of said sheet, and then stitching said iaps to said sheet along their long bases and'diagonal sides.

.5. An article of the class described comprising two superirn osed fabric sheets, said 'sheets having two s ots located, respectivel near the diagonally opposite corners tllereof, each slot being inclined to the longitudinal axis of the superimposed sheets and arranged to receive the nearer corner of the sheets on the opposite Vside of the rtransverse axis thereof, and a central longitudinal reinforcement, said reinforcement consisting of a trapezoidal fla integral with the lowermost sheet and olded over the same on its short base, a second trapezoidal flap integral with the lower sheet and folded thereover on its short base,

substantially inthe lon itudinal axis of said` lower sheet, a thir -trapezoidal ap integral 'with the last mentioned flap, superimposed thereon and folded thereover on its long base, said third Hap being integral with the upper sheet and said upper sheet being folded over said third Hap along the short base `thereof, and a fourth trapezoidal flap integral with the upper sheet and folded thereover alongthe short base of said Hap, whereby' the long bases of the third and `/fourth flaps lie substantially in the longitudinal axis of both sheets and said fourth flap is superim osed upon the Hap first mentioned.

n -testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name this 16th day of May,

whereby the long bases of both flapsv lie REGINA J. wooDY.- 

